"Your Majesty, fifty thousand Qiang cavalry from Liangzhou will arrive in less than three days!" Wang Meng replied.
The ones attacking this time are not the northern princes, but the southern princes. If these 50,000 Qiang cavalry are used properly, they will definitely be an overwhelming force. After all, Liu Xiucai has a few cavalry. Even several princes in the south. That’s it for the bonus.
Moreover, Li Xiang also hoped that Liu Xiu and the others could work harder to consume more of these Qiang people. The Qiang people's unrest in Liangzhou was one of the reasons that indirectly destroyed the Eastern Han Dynasty. Li Xiang did not want Qiang chaos to occur in the future. become your own trouble.
The famous generals A Shu, Wang Baobao, and Yang Dayan who were originally in Li Xiang's army, plus those generals who came to Xi Xianbei after the death of Yelu Abaoji. The most important thing is that Huo Qubing, who has just reached the age of fifteen, They are all generals of this Qiang cavalry.
There was no way, in Luoyang, Huo Qubing was so noisy that he seemed to be a little overlord and a lawless lord. Li Xiang simply sent him to the military camp a year ago, and gave him a gift like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Eight hundred cavalry play.
However, this boy was restless when he arrived at the military camp. As soon as he joined the military camp, he happened to hear that Su Dingfang was about to start a war, and he was clamoring to go to the battlefield to make contributions.
Li Xiang was also helpless. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could train this boy to be docile, but why did he become a lawless master when he came to him?
However, Li Xiang did not refuse his request. He was a natural cavalry commander and should lead the cavalry in all directions on the battlefield.
According to the original history, when Huo Qubing was 17 years old, he participated in the Battle of Monan for the first time and achieved the title of "Beheading 2,028 level captives, becoming the Prime Minister, becoming the householder, beheading the eldest father's name, Ruohou, and having a son." The record of "catching Ji's father Luo Gubi".
Although it is a few years earlier now, it is still not as early as when Li Xiang himself went to the battlefield!
When Wei Zifu heard that Huo Qubing was going to the Liangzhou battlefield, he was decisively opposed to it. In Wei Zifu's eyes, Huo Qubing was just a child!
But Huo Qubing is also a stubborn leader, and he finally convinced Li Xiang to let him go to the battlefield. Naturally, it is impossible to give up at this time and give up so easily.
In the end, it was Li Xiang who stepped forward to smooth things over and casually gave Huo Qubing four powerful generals to protect Huo Qubing's safety. This was able to appease Wei Zifu.
The four fierce generals given to Huo Qubing were none other than the four brothers of the Demon family, Mo Li Qing, Mo Li Hong, Mo Li Hai, and Mo Li Shou.
Although these four brothers are not outstanding individually, they are just peerless generals with a basic strength of 103, but when they join forces, they are definitely worthy of fighting even the first-time god-level generals!
Although Huo Qubing was given a backdoor, allowing him to jump directly to the rank of captain as soon as he entered the military camp, the four brothers of the Mo family were also four captains, and their qualifications and achievements were far from what Huo Qubing could compare with today. of.
As a captain with no qualifications or merit, it was the first time in the Jin army that four captains were subordinated to him.
In fact, in order to prevent the four generals of the Demon Family from becoming psychologically unbalanced and from causing rifts in their relationships with their subordinates, Li Xiang directly opened the treasury and asked the four of them to go in and choose a weapon to appease the four of them.
At the same time, it also implies that these four people are just asking them to temporarily help them take care of their juniors, and will transfer them out later to give them the opportunity to make contributions.
After all, Huo Qubing was just a kid at that time, and the only reason for her success was that her aunt was Wei Zifu.
Otherwise, just relying on this relationship to directly put pressure on the heads of the four generals of the Demon Family who have made great contributions will inevitably cause the generals under their command to become alienated.
But now, Li Xiang has told them that by transferring them, they are not really going to be Huo Qubing's subordinates, but to help him take care of his juniors. This is doing his lord a favor, but the effect is not good.
Same!
If they go, it is equivalent to letting their master owe them a favor. In the future, when they get promotions and salary increases, they will have to take priority.
If the boss asks you for help, few people will refuse as long as they are not stupid.
Even if you suffer a little loss temporarily, this little loss is actually a good thing. How can the boss really let you suffer a loss for no reason? You will definitely get double compensation in the future. For example, the four of them each got one shot at the beginning.
Divine weapon.
"Where's Qi Jiguang? His navy is in place, right?" Li Xiang asked again. Only by making all preparations to arrive can the success of this battle be ensured to the greatest extent.
Wuguan is bordered by the steep Shaoxi Mountain to the north and the cliffs of the Wuguan River Valley to the south. There is a branch of the Yangtze River named Xiangjiang River, and the Xiangjiang River branches into several tributaries, among which the Danshui River and the Zhejiang River surround the mountain range where Wuguan is located.
The Zhejiang River is on the right, and the Danshui River is on the left. It is tens of miles away from Wuguan along the Wuguan Mountain Road. The Zhejiang River is surrounded by the Wuguan Mountains. To the east of the Zhejiang River are many counties in Nanyang. As for Danshui,
It is close to the Hanzhong area.
Southwest of Danshui is the Shangyong area, which was the northeastern gateway of Liu Bei's power. Later, Mengda surrendered to Wei, and the Shangyong area was also acquired by the Wei state.
The first battle of this troop dispatch was a surprise attack. In order to ensure speed and surprise, it was necessary to use the power of the navy to cross the river as quickly as possible.
Therefore, Li Xiang asked Han Shizhong's deputy general Qi Jiguang to detach a naval force and come secretly. At Wuguan, Chang Yuchun had already ordered people to secretly build ships.
At the same time, Qi Jiguang was transferred here to prepare for the formation of the Yangtze River Navy after taking Jingxiang. With Qi Jiguang's talent, it would be a pity to have been Han Shizhong's deputy general! He was singled out to serve as the leader of a navy.
, can be worthy of his talent.
"My lord, General Qi's 10,000 navy troops secretly arrived near Wuguan last night and hid themselves. They can take action immediately just waiting for my lord's order!" This time the answer was not from Wang Meng, but from Liu Bowen.
In the past few years, Li Xiang's goal of expanding the army has been completed, and the 10,000 navy has also been expanded to 30,000. This time, although Qi Jiguang divided the 10,000 navy, it still did not affect the Yellow River navy.
Strength.
In addition to the 100,000 soldiers and horses in each state, Li Xiang established the Guangcheng and Lantian camps in Sizhou and Yongzhou respectively, and stationed an additional 50,000 soldiers and horses in these two places.
Therefore, to launch a surprise attack on Jingxiang from these two places, there is no need to mobilize troops from other places in the early stage, and it can be as concealed as possible. This was what Li Xiang had planned when he set up these two camps.
Already considered.
"Okay, that being the case, without further ado, let's send an order to Yue Fei and Chang Yuchun to take action as soon as possible!" Li Xiang nodded with satisfaction.